1931: The oldest known photograph of the (Crown) Theater, renamed Wyo Theatre in 1949. Note that side doors allowed exit from balcony; center door was for admission.
Oldest known newspaper ad (1931) for films playing at the Crown Theater. "Woman Hungry" was an early Process 3 Technicolor film production which improved color saturation- compared to Process 2.
The stars of "Too Young to Marry", Grant Withers and Loretta Young, who secretly eloped and married (she at 17) a year before the film was produced.
Their marriage was annulled (for publicity) during the film's release. Withers died of suicide in 1959. Young lived to age 87 in Los Angeles.
1936: The film playing at The Crown Theater for this VFW adudience was HIGH TENSION. Across 5th street was Crown Liquors, same ownership as cinema.
1953: Following restoration of the Crown Theater in 1949, and renaming the venue as The Wyo Theatre, this advertising in the Laramie Boomerang showed all three downtown cinemas of the day, still called "Fox" theaters
(despite the 1948 "Paramount ruling").
2014-2016: before restoration and improvement in 2014 and 2015 the "beloved Wyo" was a virus-infected, unheated and totally unprofitable, unheated and poorly maintained s__ house of an obsolete- no parking- cinema.
